2022 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

Antonia “Toni” Bluher is a senior subject matter expert in cryptography at the National Security Agency (NSA). She grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and received an honors B.S. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1983. She completed Part III of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge... Read More →

Bridget Butler is a Senior Strategy Consultant focusing on consumer and small business credit cards at Wells Fargo. She received her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Kansas in 2007 where her undergraduate research focused on algebraic coding theory under Professor... Read More →

Dr. Sara Del Valle is a Senior Scientist in the Information Systems & Modeling Group (A-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As a scientist, she leads a multidisciplinary team focused on detecting, understanding, and forecasting infectious diseases using heterogeneous data... Read More →

Brittney Keel-Mercer is a Research Animal Geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dr. Keel completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Central Missouri in 2009 and went on to complete her Master’s (2012) and Ph.D. (2015) in Mathematics... Read More →

Dr. Kay Kirkpatrick has been a professor at University of Illinois mathematics since 2011 and joined the U of I physics department in 2017. She earned a B.S. from Montana State University and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, both in pure mathematics, but always with a deep interest in physics... Read More →

Kristina has been working as a data scientist on Weber Shandwick’s Analytics and Global Intelligence department for the past three years. During this time she has worked on client accounts in various industries, including: healthcare, telecommunications, food and beverage, and government... Read More →